Alex Little

Our department now has a generator, so we can keep working even when the power goes out, although the real reason our department is covered by a generator is because the server room for our campus is in our building.

All of which is good timing as we’re now on scheduled power cuts. Apparently every 5 days the power will be off from 6am until 6 or 9pm and I suspect this will continue until the rainy season starts in June or July. Lets hope that the University gets it’s supply of diesel sorted out – on Friday, with the generator stopped working when the diesel ran out!

I should also hope that at least some of the power generated by the huge new hydroelectric dams ( more info on BBC) is actually kept back to supply Ethiopia, rather than mainly being used for export and associated foreign currency generation.